Michigan state police said on Thursday morning, a hospital employee in the northern suburbs of Detroit shot and injured a colleague, and the suspect has been detained.
According to police, the victim is a 25-year-old man who was shot twice in the arm, and he is currently in stable condition. Authorities described the incident as a “premeditated event” between two men.
Dispatchers received reports at 7 a.m. that a shooting had taken place in the parking lot of Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital. Hospital security reported that someone fired five shots at the victim with a handgun. The hospital posted on X that “one person is receiving treatment in the emergency department.”
The shooting led to a lockdown of the sprawling medical complex and several schools in the area. As of 10 a.m. Eastern Time, the medical center was returning to normal operations.
Last month in York, Pennsylvania, a man armed with a gun held a hospital employee in the intensive care unit hostage and was later shot dead by police in a gun battle, during which an officer also died. Prosecutors in York County stated that the shooter apparently targeted the hospital deliberately, as he had interacted with the intensive care unit earlier in the week over medical care issues involving someone else.
A hospital security consultant mentioned that such shooting incidents typically occur in hospital emergency rooms but can also happen in maternity wards and intensive care units. Unlike random mass shootings in other locations, the shooters usually have a specific target, sometimes driven by dissatisfaction with the medical care provided to their relatives.
(Reference: Associated Press)